December has been hot, dry and hot. Well it is summer and its supposed to be hot, but the summer has been really hot. The weather presenter on the news seems to be forever discussing another temperature record being broken and how the farmers out west are struggling to get feed and water to their livestock. Now I fully understand that one season or even 5-years doesn't add up to climate change, but the science is clear and climate change is happening and we are the primary cause. Every tree we cut down, every mile we fly or drive, every time we switch on the air-conditioning or the dishwasher, all adds up. I recently watched a talk show where a climate scientist sat in front of an audience of doubters and fielded their questions. It was frustrating to watch, to say the least, when one after another lay people without any scientific background and with neither data nor research to back their arguments sought to deny the reality that this distinguished scientist as he laid the facts out before them. I think the moment that my tolerance collapsed was when a lawyer bemoaned her situation that some friends had become exasperated with her because she expressed doubts and followed up with an argument about people being entitled to their own opinions and that others shouldn't get so het up about these things. I'm sorry madam, but what you seem to fail to appreciate is that this isn't a matter of opinion, it isn't a debate about insubstantial matters, it's a matter of the planet and the Sixth Great Extinction. Its about how climate change will disrupt everything we take as the norm, its about forced immigration as parts of the planet becoming uninhabitable and vast numbers of people from sub Saharan Africa to the Pacific Islands seeking to migrate to a tolerable climate, its about polar bears starving to death and Walrus leaping off 70' cliffs, its about acidic oceans, coral bleaching, hurricanes and cyclones. So yes madam, I do think that it's something to get het up about, I do think that it warrants anger and frustration and if you can't grasp the enormity of the situation you must be dumb. Even if you don't agree with the science you should at least be able to comprehend why those that do are so angry.
Regulars (Seen daily)
Australian Magpie
Bar-shouldered Dove
Brown Honeyeater
Common Bronzewing
Crested Pigeon
Dollarbird
Double-barred Finch
Galah
Laughing Kookaburra
King Parrot
Little Corella
Little Friarbird
Noisy Friarbird
Noisy Miner
Olive-backed Oriole
Pacific Black Duck
Peaceful Dove
Pied Butcherbird
Pied Currawong
Plumed Whistling Duck
Rainbow Lorikeet
Spangled Drongo
Striated Pardalote
Sulphur Crested Cockatoo
Torresian Crow
Welcome Swallow
White-throated Gerygone
Common (Seen Weekly)
Black-faced Cuckoo Shrike
Cicadabird
Common Koel
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| Juvenile Common Koel |
Forest Kingfisher
Grey Butcherbird
Grey Shrike-Thrush
Magpie Lark
Scarlet Honeyeater
White-throated Honeyeater
White-throated Treecreeper
Yellow Faced Honeyeater
Yellow-rumped Thornbill
Uncommon (Seen occasionally)
Channel-billed Cuckoo
Common Mynah
Eastern Spinebill
Eastern Yellow Robin
Figbird
Leaden Flycatcher
Lewins Honeyeater
Pale-headed Rosella
Pheasant Coucal
White-faced Heron
Wood Duck
Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
Rare (Seen once)
Australian Ibis
Brown Cuckoo Dove
Brush Turkey
Eastern Boobook
White-bellied Cuckoo Shrike
White-headed Pigeon
Willie Wagtail
59-species, which is about all for now.
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